Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 329, 23 November 1891 — What are They. [ARTICLE]

What are They.

It appears to bea question upon whieh opinions v»ry- as to whether ihe present ministers āroi or :are not National Cabinet. ltis the curreut belief among the \vorking clas«e*, that the National Party is in I>ower. a,nd they point with soorn And disappointinent at the failure l of the adrainistration. Tli:k belief| m founded in the fact that thej j en is universally believed to ha ve dkmissed the old cabinet and 'omjnissioned the now inen in dei : ence to the general wish of a >jority of the people who were itnpatient and indignant at thc in- 1 $olent attitude of the then cabmet. They having acquired power thrc«gb tbe i:ationa! movemeut, 'i 86kmnly pledged oheraselveB » thftt partv. bnt proved treav ii. r>uBly false. The new rainisters,i h> iwever v were not appointed as representatlves of a poliiieal party, but | w<Te shuffled together under the j aauie legordemain raethodB M oourt I intngue aa prevail ln ihe fcrmer! rngime. They ropreseiit notbing | or nobody; no party and no policy; 1 they are foliowing in the exac£foot- j step of their predecessors, and their polwy is laiwz /ah*. Thev have | allowed tbe public to pemain uu<ier a delusion that they were in syrnP>jthy with the Hawaiians and their alliea of tbe National Party. but privately they have been known to j n«y that they rely on the sugar | p)-uters for their BUppoi t .snd are in open intrigue with them. Their abortive administration han rend«»pai the«u unpopular, and those onlv eee thir>£K oi> the H\trfaool»y, the Naiiouai Cabmot Tfeursttifii«n mm*mti bad enoTjgfc t the i'ummin» 5

were worse. and these fejlers are worser. Aūd this sentiment is be* ing insidiously disseminated by the ward-heelers of the Reform Party in order to throw odiuui over any renewal of naiional politics. It is therefore necessary at the outset of this campaign for the Hawaiian National Liberal Party toannounce that they repudiate the present miu* istry and do not recoghize them a« a National Cabinet. The regenerated. and rejuvenated Naiional Party bave no confidence In the adminigtrative abilities of the men who now hold the Queen's commission as Minister of State, not even in the gent|eman from holy Boston who eame to revivify the decrept and voluptuous states* man who have proved ineompetent to guide the ship of state. The Boston gentlemaii in his long abeenee from these islands *>ad noit been in touch with the new men and new ideas that are moving factors in our poliiieal life, and his very attitude from the outset did not win him the confidence of either the Hawaiiana or the workingmen. i No, the present ministers are mt a National Cabinet, but what; are they ? j